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    Lec 8 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

    "Lec 8 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road" The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) Professor Amy Hungerford's lecture on Kerouac's On the Road begins by contrasting the Beats' ambition for language's direct relation to lived experience with a Modernist sense of difficulty and mediation. She goes on to discuss the ways that desire structures the novel, though not in the ways that we might immediately expect. The very blatant pursuit of sex with women in the novel, for example, obscures the more significant desire for connection among men, particularly the narrator Sal's love for Dean Moriarty. The apparent desire for the freedom of the open road, too, Hungerford argues, exists in a necessary conjunction with the idealized comforts of a certain middle-class American domesticity, signaled by the repeated appearance of pie. 00:00 - Chapter 1. The Beats: Similarities and Differences to Literary Modernism 09:46 - Chapter 2. A New Use of Language: Mirroring the Speed of Experience 18:13 - Chapter 3. "The Prophet of 'Wow'": The Language of Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady 29:48 - Chapter 4. Dean and Sal: Tangled Sexual Tensions 33:56 - Chapter 5. The Hunger Metaphor: The American Culture of Consumption 40:21 - Chapter 6. Modes of Craftedness: Carlo Marx's Papier-Mache Mountains Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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